In the quiet of nature, we find ourselves face to face with God’s love of life and variety of life, his cycles of life and death and life again, the immensity of his time and space, and with the wonders and wisdom by which he created the universe. At the seashore, on a mountaintop, in a forest, in a garden—away from human busyness and presumed priorities, but instead surrounded by the big, little, and everywhere of his miracles—we fathom our relationship with our maker, and we thank him for allowing us, even for a short time, to be part of his wonder and variety of life on Earth.
            — MRM